Master advanced Word 2021 features: tables, mail merge, styles, long documents, and collaboration
You have mastered the basic commands and would like to move on to advanced functions. This training course will enable you to discover or perfect your knowledge of elaborate document management (insertion of tables, images and graphic objects, creation and management of templates, mailings, long documents, modification tracking...).
Is it for you ?
All users who have mastered the essential basic commands and wish to discover or deepen their knowledge of advanced functions.
Prerequisites
Basic commands must be mastered to access Word's advanced functions without difficulty.
What You'll Walk Away With
- ✓ Automate data entry and save time using AutoText and dynamic fields
- ✓ Design and format complex tables with calculations, sorting, and advanced structuring
- ✓ Create professional documents with images, charts, diagrams, and embedded objects
- ✓ Execute full mail merge campaigns with recipient management and conditional content
- ✓ Structure, secure, and collaborate on long documents using styles, TOC, and track changes
Training content
1 Essential modules
2 Word 2021 – Level 2: Intermediate knowledge
This module offers interactive training with 41 training videos, 41 practice exercises and 1 additional information point.
3 Avoid tedious data entry
- Creating an automatic insert
- Using an automatic insert
- Managing automatic insertions
- System date and time
4 Present a table in text
- Creating a table
- Moving and typing in a table
- Selecting and inserting rows and columns
- Deleting rows and columns
- Table styling
- Formatting cells
- Row height and column width
- Cell and table alignment
- Merging and splitting cells and tables
- Text-to-table conversion
- Table, list and paragraph sorting
- Calculations in a table
5 Enhance your documents with graphic elements
- Drawing a shape
- Resizing/rotating/adjusting
- Moving/copying a drawing object
- Formatting a drawing object
- Text in a drawing object/WordArt
- Formatting text in an object/WordArt
- Inserting an image
- Managing an image
- Positioning and wrapping an image
- Caption and table of illustrations
- Document background
- Chart
- Inserting an object from another application
- Diagram
6 Print an envelope or create a mailing
- Creating an envelope or an address label
- To know: Mail merge
- Mailing: linking a list to a document
- Inserting fields in a mailing
- Executing a mailing
- Modifying recipients
- Adding and removing recipients
- Sorting a recipient list
- Selecting records to print
- Conditional text in a mailing
- Preparing labels by mailing
- Document with variable fields
7 Word 2021 – Level 3: Advanced knowledge
This module offers you an interactive training composed of 45 training videos, 45 practice exercises, and 4 additional information points.
8 Master themes, styles, and templates
- To know: Styles and templates
- Creating a style
- Using the Styles pane
- Modifying a style
- Normal style for a paragraph
- Deleting a style
- Style set
- Displaying formatting
- Creating and customizing a theme
- Creating and using a template
- Modifying and deleting a template
- Changing the template associated with a document
- Copying styles to other files
9 Work with long documents
- Navigating in a long document
- Section
- Different headers or footers
- Managing automatic page breaks
- Footnote/endnote
- Managing footnotes/endnotes
- Heading hierarchy levels
- Document outline
- Table of contents
10 Finalize your long documents
- Bookmarks
- Cross-reference
- Hyperlink
- Multi-column layout
- Master document
- Index
- Citations and bibliography
11 Work collaboratively
- To know: Import, export, and interoperability with Word
- Sharing Word data: PDF, XPS, text, web pages, and email
- Comment
- Tracking changes
- Managing tracked changes
- Merging and comparing documents
- Protecting a shared document
- Password-protecting a document
- Sharing a document
- Finalizing a document
12 To learn even more
- Drop cap
- Managing application preferences
- Statistics, document properties
- Macro
- Converting Word documents
- Creating a form
- Protecting and using a form
- File versioning and recovery
- To know: Customizing the ribbon
- To know: Best practices in word processing
13 Additional modules
Word 2021
Digital book: This module offers access to a digital course material.
14 Word 2021 – Level 1: Essential knowledge
This module offers you an interactive training composed of 55 training videos, 55 practice exercises, and 6 additional information points.
15 Microsoft Office: use cases
Excel, Word, or PowerPoint with a Microsoft 365 subscription (Video)
Video: This module offers access to a 23-minute video.
- Office with or without a Microsoft 365 subscription: what are the differences?
- Create and save Office documents on OneDrive, SharePoint Online, or Teams
- Edit an Office document from OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams
- Share Office documents with colleagues or external users
- Co-author files
📌 Practical information
100% online training. Accessible anytime from anywhere for one year. If you have any questions about registration, the language of instruction, or the cancellation terms, please consult our FAQ